Have been waiting for google's pending update but didn't get any on that. From last two days I have noticed extreme changes in search results for same google domain (like .com or .de or .nl etc.) with different interface language selected (like hl=de or hl=en or hl=nl). When you change the interface language the whole bunch of results are different.

Is this the actual update this time? Enabling the geo centric data which google wanted to implement for better localization? If yes (and if someone else is also seeing this change) then may be we can all identify the parameters of this new change, like language, servers in geographical locations or extensions (.de, .nl etc.)

>> Didn't someone post a while back that this happened to him last time? Dropped off then came back a couple days later. always happens, especially during updates. It's hard to stay calm but it happens. Sites drop and come back.

Wow! Normally I am Google's biggest fan and pretty much sit on the side lines why all this goes on and wait it out. But today, while searching for a specific Linux command to use for an application I'm working on, after going back 3 pages I gave up and said what the heck and ran the search on MSN.

I can't believe I found EXACTLY what I was looking for under the 3rd listing.

Normally, it is the other way around. I can only hope that whatever filters they are playing with will work their way through and go back to actually giving good results again.

I had the same experience with google recently, searching for a specific perl command and was served with pages upon pages of crap, many dead ends, 404's or utterly unrelated pages.

Gave up after 20 minutes of trying to shift through the crap ("Relevant search results" NOT). Found it on yahoo on first pages 2nd listing. What the hell is wrong with google lately. It is seriously messed up and most listings are badly out of date (supplemental results galore).

Do you think that our good friends at the plex have deployed filters to some sectors or is it "general" filters.

Or is it algo changes .. or something else?

Thanks!

Something else!

The "something" that causes adwords clicks to go 10%-20% higher. Short term bottom line gains......long term massive damage to their reputation OR the plex is being run by a fresh group of monkeys lately. Nothing else can explain/justify the way the SERPs are looking like recently.

Do you think that our good friends at the plex have deployed filters to some sectors or is it "general" filters.

reseller, it looks like a filter. The order of the SERPs are the same, with few sites yanked out of their original positions. The intent is clear. The sites that try to influence google ranks, whitehat or otherwise, are punished. But looks like whitehats affected the most. Nothing to do with on-site factors.

The results on those DCs just look like the lingering embers of what happened on the 22nd September - this often happens with updates that a slight reversal on some dcs but then they die out.

However, if others are seeing sites come back from before the 22nd September update then perhaps that is more encouraging.

For me however more encouraging is the spread of the 216.239.59.103 results and as they have spread further than Armi list perhaps these are the results to come - however they do both look like they are spreading.

Google just killed the rest of my site. First it was filtered on Sept 22 and now all the remaining subdomains were also filtered out - just a couple of hours after I finally received an answer from Google saying "your site is not penalized, get more links bla bla". And the pages dropped at the same time on all datacenters so it's not related to this ongoing update.

My only pages doing well right now are auto generated Adsense link pages. Maybe Google likes them because they have Adsense on it.

I have a feeling that our friend Matt Cutts & Co are going this time after, among other things, what they consider "artificial linking", for example purchased links and heavy reciprocal linking.

Don't know....it looks like they are too busy fighting shadows and natural economic forces, patching and over patching an over patched busted algo.

Yahoo and MSN seems to be doing just fine....it is only google that appears to be seriously choking on spam. The irony, the more they fight spam (and wipe millions of innocent sites in the process) the more they seam to be choked by it to the point were the SERPs look like a very sad joke now a days.

>>>My only pages doing well right now are auto generated Adsense link pages.

Lovely.

>>>Group 2: >>>Some 9/22 sites are back but other sites dropped nowhere. Some countries have been using these results for 2-3 days already: >>>216.239.53 >>>216.239.63 >>>64.233.189 >>>66.102.7

The more I look at these they just look like the last embers of the changes from the 22nd.

But we will see.

It does look like another stab at fixing canonical urls - but please Google remember these sites are not crawled well and are desperatly needing a crawl (which does not place them in the sandbox! - yuck can see it now - canonical problem sites get there pages back - G think to many pages to quick - better sandbox the site!)

Our Oscommerce sites are being hit hard in the following blocks: 66.102.7 216.239.53 216.239.63 64.233.189

We are in Thailand and Google.com is using the 66.102.7.104 here so that's how we noticed it. Not sure but I begin to suspect that it might be internal duplicate pages getting filtered as Oscommerce has two URL paths to the same product file, one direct and one via the category. This becomes four when you throw in shared SSL paths.

All of the sites have some recip. linking and there is some light intersite linking which has passed OK for the last couple of years. Most of the competitors sites in the keywords we are following look fairly stable so the "new filter" is very selective. In answer to an earlier question, there is no Adsense on the sites.

what do you think are the chances that this IP will be the new google results:

216.239.59.103

It seems to give good results, not dropping all relevant pages like some of the IPs are, but intelligently pushing back some duplicate content. If this version of google doesnt stick, im in TROUBLE - all me legitimate and relevant pages other than my home page will be moved back or dropped, as per the other set of results.....